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Senior Robotics Engineer - Undersea Dominance

Anduril· Maritime & Maneuver Dominance : Undersea Dominance - Engineering & Operations
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Costa Mesa, CA$220k - $292kfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior Robotics Engineers drive delivery of vehicle perception and planning capability for autonomous maritime platforms, with end-to-end ownership of major subsystems and collaboration across software, mechanical, and systems engineering to deliver trusted, safe navigation, perception, and planning solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement trusted safe navigation, collision avoidance, and situational awareness systems that balance constraints, restrictions and requirements in a multi-stakeholder environment
  • Design and implement scalable sub-systems including sensor processing, perception, tracking, motion planning, health management, anomaly detection, simulation, testing fixtures, and vehicle interfaces
  • Contribute to the design and development of existing software components across Anduril, with the aim of developing components that are reusable across multiple Anduril product lines
  • Utilize advanced techniques in computer vision, sensor fusion, and machine learning to enhance perception and planning capabilities of Anduril vehicles
  • Conduct thorough testing and validation of perception and planning algorithms through development and use of simulation and analysis of data from real-world experiments, including evolving the data analysis tooling
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including software engineers, mechanical engineers, and systems engineers, to ensure effective system integration and testing
  • Travel to co-locate with end-users and/or other teams up to 20% of the time

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, a relevant field, or equivalent experience
  • Experienced and proficient in C++ and/or Python software development
  • Familiarity with autonomous vehicle hardware and sensors such as radar, sonar, LIDAR, and cameras
  • Demonstrated knowledge of at least one of: computer vision, sensor fusion, SLAM, motion planning, machine learning
  • Experience in a senior perception or planning role for the delivery of a robotic system
  • Capacity to act as the technical owner for a system, including stakeholder engagement, requirements definition, roadmap management, team coordination, design, implementation, sustainment and evolution
  • Ability to collaborate with stakeholders to define and implement robust validation and verification strategies for perception and planning modules
  • Capacity to learn and grow individually, while mentoring junior team members effectively, building team cohesion and capacity
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Skills

Required:C++PythonAutonomous systems hardware and sensorsComputer vision / sensor fusion / SLAM / motion planning / machine learningSystem ownership and stakeholder managementValidation and verification strategies for perception and planning

Benefits

  • Comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees)
Last updated Jul 29, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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